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Lin1978 wrote:Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

Hello Skater I'm sorry but may I ask you whether you are a native speaker? As an ESL, I myself like the possessive form better than the objective form. "The teacher dislikes the child('s) whispering to his classmate" is "The teacher dislikes that the child is whispering to his classmate" rather...

MrP Thank you for the reply. Now I got it! I must have wrongly learned the participle construction. Probably my teacher wrote the form of "as V-ing ..." on the blackboard to show the logical process involved in the change of an adverbial clause into a participle phrase. As for the phrase of 'by...